CARMA Memorandum Series #63

CARMA Summer School 2014

Melvyn Wright, Marc Pound, Dick Plambeck, John Carpenter,
Doug Friedel, Nikolaus Volgenau, Patrick Kelly, Lauranne Lanz,
Lauren McKeown, Jay Franck, Erin Cox, Maryam Tabeshian,
Andrew Nadolski, Dana Anderson, Scott Barenfeld, Devin
Crichton, Ko-Yun Huang, Jonathan Florez, Amy Steele, Ned
Molter, Joey Rodriguez, Bandon Decker, Shravan Avadhuta


ABSTRACT

The 8th CARMA Summer School was held at the observatory at Cedar Flat
2014 on Aug 3-Aug 9, 2014 with 18 students from Berkeley, Caltech,
Illinois, Maryland, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Fisk, Wesleyan, Trinity
College Dublin, Missouri, Cal State, Macalaster, Western Ontario, and
Case Western Reserve. A new wrinkle this year is that youtube channel
of the lectures was set up for three international students who were
unable to attend. The channel was quite successful until Google shut it
down, claiming violation of community guidelines. Poor weather hampered
observations during the first couple days, but there was still enough good
weather during the rest of the week for students to get plenty of data.

During the school, students formed small teams and designed and obtained
their own observations, in consultation with the instructors. Using both
science subarrays students observed star-forming regions, YSOs and out ows,
Saturn, stellar atmospheres, nearby galaxies, a high-z galaxy, and galaxy
clusters. At the end of the week, the students gave short presentations
on their results. In this memo we collect together some of the results
from the student projects.